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Joe Rogan Experience: #2434 with Kurt Metzger (Transcript)

Here is the full transcript of comedian Kurt Metzger’s interview on The Joe Rogan Experience #2434, January 6, 2026.

Brief Notes: Comedian Kurt Metzger joins Joe Rogan to dissect the fracturing narratives of early 2026, exploring a world where paid influencer bounties and “domain projection” are weaponized to manipulate global perception. The duo delves into the deep state’s obsession with the occult, from the “Cremation of Care” ceremony at Bohemian Grove to the “shadow presidency” of Larry Ellison and the bizarre history of dolphin intelligence experiments.

Metzger offers a raw, conspiratorial analysis of the spiritual fallout from the Charlie Kirk assassination and the military capture of Nicolás Maduro, while warning of the rise of “technopuritanism” and AI-generated gods. From the high-stakes science of plasma fusion to the fringe legacy of the Nazi Bell, this episode provides an unfiltered look at the hidden forces currently reshaping human history.

John C. Lilly and the Isolation Tank

JOE ROGAN: Feel good.

KURT METZGER: I’m trying to get a John Lee picture. John Lilly Awareness Day.

JOE ROGAN: Is the Carhartt. No specific time period appropriate.

KURT METZGER: No, it’s supposed to be like a boiler suit. It didn’t arrive.

JOE ROGAN: What is a boiler suit?

KURT METZGER: Like a coverall.

JOE ROGAN: Oh, like something would wear in the boiler room.

KURT METZGER: Yeah, but the best kind to get. I would have done a mashup. Now, see here, he’s got kind of a pleather jumpsuit. He’s got a lot of great looks.

JOE ROGAN: That guy was out there.

KURT METZGER: Two diamond studs. Oh, let me take off my John C. Lilly glasses. Oh, yeah, he invented the isolation goon tank.

JOE ROGAN: Oh, yeah.

KURT METZGER: You go in there and goon. It’s like you’re in space, dude.

JOE ROGAN: My friend actually went in his tank and did ketamine with him before he went in his tank.

KURT METZGER: Who? Who?

JOE ROGAN: Todd McCormick.

KURT METZGER: Hey, what happened?

JOE ROGAN: John Lilly shot him up with an intramuscular shot of ketamine before he went into the tank. He’s like, “This is what I do. You want to do it?” He’s like, “Okay, sure.”

KURT METZGER: John Lee’s like, “Hey, do you want to watch my parents f*ing to conceive me? I like to do that in this day.”

JOE ROGAN: Let’s go back in time.

KURT METZGER: I like to go into the fing… What do they call that Buddhist thing where you go and watch your parents f?

JOE ROGAN: Is that a real thing?

KURT METZGER: Yeah, you know, in this… I forget. The afterlife, their home mapping. The afterlife thing.

JOE ROGAN: But can they do it, like with meditation or something? Is that what you’re saying?

KURT METZGER: Yeah, but they say if you could…

JOE ROGAN: Choose to do that. What if you could go back in time and watch something, but only one thing, and that thing is your parents f*ing. You could be back in 1976 or whenever it was you were born.

KURT METZGER: So what do I get out of that?

JOE ROGAN: Nothing.

KURT METZGER: Just research. Valuable research.

JOE ROGAN: You only get one trip back in time. Everybody gets a chip back in time to see what it’s like, but that’s the only thing you get to say.

KURT METZGER: It sounds like Tibetan Buddhism, what you’re describing to me. Pretty sure that’s what… What do they call it when you go to the place you go to watch your parents f*? Jamie, aren’t you a Buddhist? The Bodak. It’s not called that. How you like that? Nicki Minaj, huh? Really?

JOE ROGAN: What about her?

KURT METZGER: Did you watch? We’ve been covering TPUSA all week.

The Right Wing Gang War and Influencer Bounties

JOE ROGAN: Okay, you’re deep in the woods. I’m not. I stay out of that. It seems like the right wing of this country is in some sort of a weird gang war.

KURT METZGER: There never was a f*ing United right. It was a bunch of people needing some shit done that didn’t get done, and now they’re upset about it.

JOE ROGAN: Because here’s the bunch of people scrambling to be in control of the narrative, too.

KURT METZGER: The poly market dudes have some network. There’s also like the show I sold called a cutout. They do these cutout things, or it’s like you pay a company to put up… When Elon showed what countries all the tweets are coming from, right? Okay, why the f* are Indians and Sri Lankans tweeting about Israel, Palestine shit, right?

Well, it’s because there’s these bounties they put up and you can get invited to like a circle. Remember when you show me those things, people would get of like, “Hey, say this shit and we’ll give you this money.” Well, now there’s a bounty system.

JOE ROGAN: Mmm.

KURT METZGER: It’s on Jimmy Channel. It’s fing amazing. So all these… So a bunch of people that I watch them just like flip and say a thing, like it’s their job to say it. It was their job, but they’re trying to hit a certain amount of engagement, and then you get like 50 grand. I can’t remember the name of the guy that pointed out, but it’s really good fing work. Should I show looked up?

JOE ROGAN: So it’s not just bots.

KURT METZGER: The Bardo.

JOE ROGAN: Bardo of Becoming. A Tibetan teaching. After death, consciousness passes through several bardos, culminating in the Bardo of becoming, where karmic visions of one’s next life arise. During this phase, there are increasingly frequent flashes of the environment, parents and circumstances in which one will be conceived. And one is drawn towards these as a kind of refuge or new home.

That’s interesting, but not as interesting as the influencers. Thank you, Perplexity. Oh, yeah, thank you to our sponsor, Perplexity.

KURT METZGER: You can always tell who’s getting paid to say the thing because they’ll use…

JOE ROGAN: Well, I just got paid to say that.

KURT METZGER: Well, it sounds like a fair… I thought it was very interesting and informative. I’d like to learn, if you have a brochure.

JOE ROGAN: How many people are doing that.